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Other than civil engineering, I don't think that's true in the US for engineering. Happy to be corrected though.

• dhosek 4y ago
  When I wanted to switch from doing PHP/Perl programming to Java, I found getting the Java certification was a helpful thing for getting that first job. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend the certifications in general as a means of anything, but it does serve to open doors which might be hard to open otherwise. I have to imagine that this sort of path isn’t unique to myself.
• RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
  The Professional Engineer certification exam covers a lot more than just civil engineering. https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/ https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/
  • sarchertech 4y ago
    That's true but most engineers outside of civil engineering don't bother with it.
• InitialLastName 4y ago
  It's less common in the other fields (where an engineer's decisions are less likely to involve life-risking decisions, or enormous amounts of public money), but the Professional Engineer certification is certainly a thing in the other fields. In fact, it's ambiguous at least in my state whether it is legal to run a business offering "engineering" services in those fields without a PE on staff.